Highbridge (Metro-North station)

Highbridge
Highbridge Metro-North Facility, as seen from its namesake
Location	Depot Place and Exterior Drive Bronx, New York
Coordinates	40°50′17.5″N 73°55′53″W / 40.838194°N 73.93139°W / 40.838194; -73.93139
Line(s)	Hudson Line employees only
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	3 mainline plus 11 yard
History
Rebuilt	December 2003
Electrified	700V (DC) third rail
Services
Preceding station   Metro-North Railroad   Following station Yankees–East 153rd Street toward Grand Central Hudson Line Morris Heights toward Poughkeepsie   Former services   New York Central Railroad Morris Heights toward Peekskill Hudson Division 138th Street toward New York City Morris Heights toward Brewster Putnam Division Sedgwick Avenue Terminus

The Highbridge Facility is a maintenance facility of the Metro-North Railroad in Bronx, New York City, United States. It is the third stop along the Hudson Line, and is for Metro-North employees only. The station is located south of the High Bridge, off Depot Place and Exterior Drive, and is accessible from Sedgewick Avenue by way of a viaduct that carries Depot Place over the Major Deegan Expressway, the Hudson Line, and Exterior Drive.

It was originally built by the New York Central Railroad. Photographs from the 1960s indicate that the station was a regular passenger depot before it was a rail yard.

The railroad station in the Highbridge section of the Bronx was once part of the New York Central (later Metro-North) railroad Hudson Division (Line). The station served as a transfer point for the Putnam Division (Line) of the NYC. The Central's long distance passenger trains including the Wolverine, 20th Century and Lake Shore Limited picked up their dining cars at Highbridge after leaving Grand Central Terminal but Highbridge was not an official stop for the trains. The Central also had a passenger car washing facility at Highbridge.

Along with the passenger service, Highbridge also had a tractor trailer/freight yard where trucks would load their trailers on to flat cars for "piggyback" service and at one time had a pier to load freight cars on barges when the Central owned its own fleet of tugboats and car carriers. The passenger station was closed and demolished in the late 1970s and the freight yard now serves as a maintenance facility of the Metro-North Railroad. In 1998, it was given a connection to the Oak Point Link towards a viaduct along the east bank of the Harlem River leading to the Harlem River Yards and Oak Point Yard, both of which are freight yards originally owned by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.